Well every time the DoD says it costs to much it goes black and they double the funding...

Don't forget that missing 3.5 trillion... that's a lot
of beans...
I am more concerned about what they are teaching our kids in school these days
Physcis Forum

...assessment of the feasibility of diverting asteroid 1981 Midas into a collision with Earth in the year 2018. I'm posting this to show the
potential military-political advantage to controlling access to space....
www.physicsforums.com...
Okay I bet this guy has the DoD in his future job options
Its funny the things you find... just as a side note...

Two shuttles under military command were shown in the 1998 movie Armageddon. Designated X-71s, they were named Freedom and Independence. Again,
however, these shuttles were not particularly covert - internal dialogue in the film plainly stated that they were to be replacements for the
"original shuttles," and were to be publicly announced and rolled out in a lavish ceremony in a few months, had not the asteroid crisis arisen
before that could happen.
WIKI
[edit on 24-12-2007 by zorgon]